Cristina Groeger is a history professor at Lake Forest College and a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
The characteristics of the middle class, sociology as a discipline, the uses of “utopia,” strategies for ending capitalism, the lives of students and colleagues — Erik Olin Wright transformed all of them and more.
Tax-the-rich plans like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 percent proposal aren’t just politically popular — they’re morally necessary.
The teachers’ strike wave is rolling on: today, Virginia educators are walking out. A rank-and-file teacher explains the movement’s emergence and what’s at stake.
If the Democrats really believed the science on climate change, they’d be offering far more radical proposals. We have to make them.
After violence against a left-wing opposition leader, Serbians have taken to the streets. The demonstrations are breaking through the blanket of silence imposed by an increasingly authoritarian government.
Ukraine’s politics are dominated by oligarchs. Its streets are more and more run by the far right.
Trump and Bolsonaro aren’t just united by their shared prejudices, but by a sense of common purpose.
The removal of a statue of the communist leader Imre Nagy is the latest effort by Viktor Orbán to erase all memory of the country’s left and valorize the far right.
Just last night, there was no end to the government shutdown in sight. But when airport workers started calling in sick and raising the threat of a strike, everything suddenly changed.
Italian researcher Giulio Regeni was murdered for his work in support of Egypt’s trade unions. The failure to bring his killers to justice shows the power of the interests he and his comrades sought to challenge.
Despite a string of encouraging strikes and labor victories, the latest numbers show that union density fell to a new low last year.
The Los Angeles strike wasn’t just a teachers’ victory. It was also a tale of two competing antiracist visions — one upheld by privatizing billionaires and another pushed by working people.
The Washington Post tried to fact check Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yet again. And yet again, the paper instead made a fool of itself.
The eminent Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright was serious about understanding and changing the world — and was generous, curious, and kind while doing it.
Erik Olin Wright was radicalized in the 1960s and remained a Marxist because his moral compass simply wouldn’t allow him to drift away. With his death, the Left has lost one of its most brilliant intellectuals.
We don’t need a full-on general strike to stop the federal shutdown. A strike by small groups of workers — pilots, air traffic controllers, and flight attendants — would force the government to reopen.
The white-collar art world isn’t a hotbed of labor radicalism. But at the New Museum in Manhattan, workers are unionizing. We spoke to a museum worker about it.
A Green New Deal is now on the agenda. Activists should embrace the public ownership option: mass decarbonization, using the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike was big, it was united, and now it’s victorious. We interview UTLA chief negotiator Arlene Inouye about how the strike turned the tables on the billionaire privatizers.
Thanks to the dogmatism of Northern Ireland’s Unionists, Sinn Féin gets to have it both ways: shielding its voters from a hard Irish border while boosting the chances of reunification.